Pen-staff and hand-support



(N'Modelp) 1 5 WT-H. LAMSON.

' PEN STAFF AND HAND SUPPORT. Y Y N0. 292,495. f I Pateted Ja-1 1.f29,1884.

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IlNrTno STATES PnTInvTr @Trient ,'WARREN H. LAMsoN, or LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.'

PEN-STAFF lAND HAND-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent ANo. 292,495, dated January 9, 1884.

Application ilcd September 3,1853. (Nonlodel.) l

,staff in proper position relatively to the stac;

also, to keep the hand holding the stati in proper position relatively to the paper.V It also has a further obj ect to give support to the hand and wrist, to prevent the same from becoming tired out by long and continued use, as well as to steady the hand of nervous or in experienced writers.

The invention consists in the parts which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out vin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is aperspective view of my improved pen-staff and handfsupport. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a hand with the guide attached thereto, and illustrates the manner of using the invention. Fig. 3 is the reverse of Fig. 2.

My invention-is represented as composed of metallic wire, but may be composedof gutt-a-percha or any other suitable material.

The body portion A, loop B, and hook C, are

preferably composed of a single piece of material, and may be given the desired forni by molding in dies or other obvious ways. The body or staff portion A has its end I) curved or otherwise fashioned to prevent catching into the paper while being moved over the same. The curve or loop B should be made with due regard to the size of the hand with which it is intended for use, the loop being intended lto fit approximately to the finger of the hand, while the hook C should be sufficiently large to permit the pen-holder to slide quite loosely therein, and it had also betterbe twisted and bent slightly forward, as shown in Fig. 3, to allow the bottom end of the penlholder to come more readily into position relatively to the ngers by which it is to be held.

In use the device may be attached to the hand as represented in Figs. 2 andy 3 of the accompanying drawings, by reference to which it will be observed that the loop B passes over the foreiinger of the hand. This prevents lifting that finger Vout of position orv cramping the same. The body or staff portion A, -passing along under the remaining ngers of the hand, bears upon the paper at the side of the hand, and thus prevents the hand from being rolled over to that side and out of proper position for writing, while the hook O supports the pen-staff, the bottom end of which is grasped by the fingers in the usual and cusv tomary way, the position of the hook relatively to the nger being such as to maintain the staff' at a proper angle of inclination.

Instead of forming the hook C, the end of the device might be projected straight forward and the pen-staff be allowedto rest or bear upon the top thereof, though I prefer to make it with the hook C.

For economical reasons I prefer to make the device of one single piece of material, as stated above, though it may obviously be formed in separte parts and connected together in any suitable way. So, also, the staff portion A, instead of being` extended outward in -a straight line, as represented in the drawings, could be turned downward at the side of the hand in an obvious way till it came in proper Contact with the paper, and the position of the hand would be maintained the same.

It will be lunderstood that with the loop B over the finger of the hand, as shown, and the end of the staff A bearing upon the paper or its supporting-table, a considerable portion of the weight of the' hand may be thrown upon the staff A through those fingers that remain above the same, and in this way great steadiness may be imparted to the hand, as, also, it may be relieved in this manner from the fatigue of long-continued use.

Having described my invention and the IOO A, provided on one end with the finger-loop bination of the body A, bent end D, finger- B and staff-loop C, :is specified, the opposite loop B, and staff-loop C, the point of said staftl end of said body being provided with the loop being bent slightly forward, substantially curved end D, substantially as set forth. as described, and for the purposes set forth. 15 5 3. Inapen-sta and handsupport, the body In testimony whereof I have signed this A, provided on one end with staff-loop C and Specification in presence of two witnesses.

linger-loop B, said staff-loop C having its point f Y T bent forward, as set forth, whereby the pen X" H' LAMSOB holder or staff is held iu 'close relation with 1o the finger, substantially its set forth.

l. In :L peirstaff and hand-support, the coin- 'itnesses:

C. B; TU'r'rLE, SEYMOUR RUTH. 

